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Freight Rate Talk Brings Up Old Issue
Washington March 30. The National Grange seeks less government control as railroads ask for freight rate hikes of 22 percent in the East and West and 15 percent in the South. The Grange argues competition should set charges, recalling its 1880s push for regulation to curb abuses by railroads.
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Ovid A. Martin
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